Book chapter
Impairment of Social and Moral Behavior Related to Early Damage in Human Prefrontal Cortek
Social Neuroscience
Psychology Press
2004
Abstract
The long-term consequences of early prefrontal cortex lesions occurring before 16 months were investigated in two adults. As is the case when such damage occurs in adulthood, the two early-onset patients had severely impaired social behavior despite normal basic cognitive abilities, and showed insensitivity to future consequences of decisions, defective autonomic responses to punishment contingencies and failure to respond to behavioral interventions. Unlike adult-onset patients, however, the two patients had defective social and moral reasoning, suggesting that the acquisition of complex social conventions and moral rules had been impaired. Thus early-onset prefrontal damage resulted in a syndrome resembling psychopathy.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Impairment of Social and Moral Behavior Related to Early Damage in Human Prefrontal Cortek
- Creators
- Steven W Anderson - University of Iowa, NeurologyAntoine BecharaHanna Damasio - University of Southern CaliforniaDaniel Tranel - University of Iowa, NeurologyAntonio R Damasio - University of California, Los Angeles
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Social Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2004
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984303012002771
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